Today is a day I should be spending de-cluttering the apartment in anticipation of getting the all-clear to move apartment next month.  However, having felt like a pig shat in my head all week, I've decided that today is the summer equivalent of "Bed, Bath and Book" day, in which I do nothing but laze around in bed, read books and have a nice long ( Read more... )

So, yesterday was my birthday, but I wasn't really in the mood for it as I'd had about 2 and half hours sleep, due to a combination of the heat keeping me awake, and finding one of these ugly motherfuckers outside my apartment.  Apparently, they're called toilet crickets, which just doesn't seem to do them justice.  Anyway, it sent me into intense ( Read more... )

So not only have I been visited by suicidal cockroaches (and with the amount of poison in my kitchen you may think I'm suicidal too), but last night I found a silverfish skittering about my kitchen floor. Can my apartment be any more detestable? I used to have small silverfish in the London flat, but they were tiny things and confined themselves ( Read more... )

I've been awake since 5.30am. Not sure why I had to wake up at that time. I spent the morning thinking about the milipede I found crawling across my ceiling the other night. On account of it being so tiny, I decided we'd agree that it could leave through the top window during the night. Which I hope it did. I will however, be investing in a ( Read more... )